Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...

The heart of every major galaxy is thought to contain a supermassive black hole — a place where gravity is so strong that anything, including light, gets devoured. Like all black holes ...

The team behind the image say it looks remarkably similar to the first black hole ever pictured, M87, suggesting strong magnetic fields may be common to all black holes. The image was taken in ...

In a new book release, two scientists combine forces to explain the discoveries, developments and theories made in the realm ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

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Black holes could be a hologram. In fact, the entire universe could be a hologram. At least, that’s one part of the idea behind a recent study published in the journal PRX Quantum. The study is ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, has about 4.3 million times the mass of our Sun. In May 2022, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration released the first direct image ...

Like a bear gorging ... Event Horizon Telescope: Moving Towards a Close-Up of a Black Hole and Its Jets Dec. 17, 2024 — After taking the first images of black holes, the groundbreaking Event ...

Astronomers have detected an erupting supermassive black hole producing some of the largest jets ever seen bursting from a galaxy with the same shape as our own. The galaxy in question also ...

In 2015, when we detected gravitational waves for the first time, the observed ripples in space-time matched the predicted signal from two black holes spiralling into one another and merging.